Steven Curtis Chapman is one of contemporary Christian music’s most successful artists, having won nearly 60 Dove Awards and sold more than 10 million albums in his chart-topping career. The singer-songwriter brings his Songs and Stories Tour to Harbor Light Church in Fremont on Sept. 27. Mac Powell (from Third Day) and Brandon Heath are also on the bill. Show time is 7 p.m., and tickets are $26-$7;, 510.744.2233, www.awakeningevents.com.

Longtime Los Gatos resident and San Jose State employee Theodore Erskine “Ted” Gehrke died Feb. 23 after a brief illness.Gehrke was born in Portland, Ore. on April 1, 1939 to Leonard and Eugenia (Taylor) Gehrke. He married Elizabeth Turner in 1967 and soon moved to the Bay Area. In 1972 he became San Jose State University’s Student Union Program Board...